Cloud Platform Engineer (DevOps) role

Cloud Platform Engineer (Azure)

Summary:
We are looking for a talented and experienced Cloud Engineer with 7+ years of professional experience to join our growing team. This is a fully remote position, offering the opportunity to work on global-scale Azure infrastructure and applications.

As well as experience with cloud infrastructure, networking, and security, the Cloud Platform Engineer will be responsible for operating, monitoring, and maintaining our many Azure subscriptions and associated global applications. This is a cloud infrastructure role.

As a Cloud Platform Engineer with cloud architecture, you will work closely with other data professionals, software engineers, and business stakeholders to build, maintain, and support efficient, scalable, and secure data pipelines. This role involves both engineering and operations, requiring comfort with project work and handling incident tickets as part of the team.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build and maintain Azure based infrastructure with Terraform modules (IaaS and PaaS resources) as part of new projects or updates needed to production environments

• Troubleshoot IaaS and PaaS issues raised via SNow incident and meet ticket closure SLA’s

• Documentation and knowledge sharing: create and maintain environment diagrams, playbooks, runbooks, and best practice documents

• Communicate with internal business partners including guidance on application design

Qualifications:

MUST

• 3+ years of experience with Azure core services: Resource Manager, Virtual Machines/Scale Sets, Storage (Blob/Files), Networking (VNets, NSGs, Load Balancer, App Gateway, DNS, Private Link)

• 3+ year of experience in Windows or Linux administration, with strong problem-solving abilities

• 3+ years of experience with Azure Kubernetes Service

• 2+ years of experience with Terraform

• Ability to work independently and initiate tasks without supervision and utilize strong interpersonal and organizational skills, including the ability to meet deadlines, work in a team environment, follow written policies and procedures and always maintain superior customer service

• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills

NICE TO HAVE

• Experience with BICEP and/or ARM templates

• CI/CD and automation: Azure DevOps Pipelines or GitHub Actions (YAML)

• Familiarity with configuration management tools, preferably Ansible

• Familiarity with configuring and managing Kafka/MongoDB/Elasticsearch

• Competency in scripting languages such as Bash, Shell, or PowerShell

• Strong communication and teamwork skills